Does that add up to a much reduced failure (early return) rate? Whether fewer with 100% blanking, fewer from a faulty B3_P1 tape, or just fewer app crashes I couldn't say - but it feels like good news.

Thanks, Richard....
I was not sure if the creation rate was normal or not. Haven't been in the habit of looking at it. I did note the anomaly in ready to send rising during 'normal' operation however.

I would suspect in the coming days, some more light might be shed on the cause.
It may not be a bad thing.....Cats.....what more does one need?

OK, this is getting ridiculous. I've got 70+ WUs backed up in my download queue and over half of them have been there since the weekend. The fastest average transfer rate I've seen is 6.5kBps. When I do get a "burst" it lasts about 5 seconds before dropping back. For the past 2 days, I've only had one core (out of 8 CPU and 1 GPU) running.

It appears AP ready to send have reached their high water mark at 25k.

@rebest with that boinc version, make sure you have some means of automated backoff reset. And how about a backup project if you don't want idle cores?A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read. (Mark Twain)

Been not watching closely over the traditional Australia Day long weekend chaos, and my machines were crunching when I looked occasionally. If I had stuck transfers I just put this retryMainTransfers.cmd in my scheduled tasks for every 20 mins or so:

This is my first post, so please forgive me if I slip up.
I need something to try and keep my downloads from getting stuck. I tried setting this up from Jason's post, but can't seem to get it to work. Must not have set it up correctly in the Win7 Task Scheduler.

Would it be possible to get a more detailed explanation on how to set up this task properly? I am sure that I am not the only one that would benefit from a detailed How To.

SIV gave me the big BSOD, and I have not tried Boinc Tasks yet. This will probably be all that I need, if I can get it to work.

This is my first post, so please forgive me if I slip up.
I need something to try and keep my downloads from getting stuck. I tried setting this up from Jason's post, but can't seem to get it to work. Must not have set it up correctly in the Win7 Task Scheduler.

Jason´s could give you a better hand, but just a tip. The cmd in the right directory? The cmd must be in the boinc program directory not the boinc data directory, that one of the mistakes most people do. In my win 7/64 is C:\Program Files (x86)\Boinc for example, in the wrong directory the scheduler could work but the cmd will not works. I use and works fine.

This is my first post, so please forgive me if I slip up.
I need something to try and keep my downloads from getting stuck. I tried setting this up from Jason's post, but can't seem to get it to work. Must not have set it up correctly in the Win7 Task Scheduler.

Jason´s could give you a better hand, but just a tip. The cmd in the right directory? The cmd must be in the boinc program directory not the boinc data directory, that one of the mistakes most people do. In my win 7/64 is C:\Program Files (x86)\Boinc for example, in the wrong directory the scheduler could work but the cmd will not works. I use and works fine.

I've boiler-plated in the standard code we use to find where boinccmd lives for testing - that saves hunting for it (I made the test run direct from a Windows 7 desktop).

The 'pause' command on the last line simply gives you a chance to check that everything's running smoothly - if it's working, you should see nothing except 'Press any key to continue...'. If you see any garbage like my last post, then something's gone wrong. Run the .cmd file manually a few times first to be sure, then delete the 'pause' line before giving responsibility to the Windows task scheduler.

A note of warning: Jason has coded this for crunchers who run only the main SETI project. If you run anything else - even SETI Beta - the results are unpredictable, because the SETI project's url is hard-coded into the file, and there's no test (nor does boinccmd allow any test) for which project a 'transfer in progress' belongs to.

I hope that the worst that would happen if you ran the command during a 20-minute file upload to CPDN or GPUGrid would be a 'file not found' or similar error in the BOINC event log, but I don't propose to risk it - SIV works for me.

# Copyright (c) 1993-2006 Microsoft Corp.
#
# This is a sample HOSTS file used by Microsoft TCP/IP for Windows.
#
# This file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names. Each
# entry should be kept on an individual line. The IP address should
# be placed in the first column followed by the corresponding host name.
# The IP address and the host name should be separated by at least one
# space.
#
# Additionally, comments (such as these) may be inserted on individual
# lines or following the machine name denoted by a '#' symbol.
#
# For example:
#
# 102.54.94.97 rhino.acme.com # source server
# 38.25.63.10 x.acme.com # x client host

I actually use the Hosts file from MVPS as it blocks all sorts of unpleasant sites.
I then just put the entries above at the top of that hosts file, save it in the directory at the top there & we're good to go.Grant
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